About this time, an organization called the " Thistle Club " was founded and, curling being a winter sport, was played when the ice was suitable on the Detroit River at the foot of Joseph Campau ; on the bay ; and at the old Recreation Park.

About 27 % of the total territory is cultivable, with the central Zemgale Plain south of Riga being the most fertile and profitable.

About 85 % of the LAF's equipment is American-made with the remaining being British, French, and Soviet-made.

Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the first two being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.

The oldest metatherian fossils ( Metatheria being a larger clade that groups marsupials with some of their extinct relatives ) are found in present-day China. About 100 mya, the supercontinent Pangaea was in the process of splitting into the northern continent Laurasia and the southern continent Gondwana, with what would become China and Australia already separated by the Tethys Ocean.

About 1458, Moctezuma led an expedition into Mixtec territory against the city-state of Coixtlahuaca, the pretext being the mistreatment of Aztec merchants.

About natural law itself, he wrote that " even the will of an omnipotent being cannot change or abrogate " natural law, which " would maintain its objective validity even if we should assume the impossible, that there is no God or that he does not care for human affairs.

About the late twenty-first dynasty ( tenth century BC ), however, instead of being used alone as before, it began to be added to the other titles before the ruler's name, and from the twenty-fifth dynasty ( eighth to seventh centuries BC ) it was, at least in ordinary usage, the only epithet prefixed to the royal appellative.

About 100 men and women received the award, the most famous being newspaperman Ernie Pyle, who was awarded a posthumous Army Purple Heart after being killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945.

About 1. 1 million battery packs in the United States are being recalled ; an additional 700, 000 were sold outside the U. S.

About one quarter of the Scandinavian Peninsula lies north of the Arctic Circle, its northernmost point being at Cape Nordkyn ( North Cape ), near the town of Hammerfest, Norway.

About this time he took up his residence in Vienna, being engaged mainly in the government of the Austrian dominions and in defending them against the Turks.

The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misspelling of Innogen — they draw several comparisons between Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing, in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife ( Posthumus being also known as " Leonatus ", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play ).

About 80 % of world production occurs in India and Pakistan, but, due to strong demand, the plant is being introduced into new areas.

About 70 %– 80 % of crayfish produced in Louisiana are Procambarus clarkii ( red swamp crawfish ), with the remaining 20 %– 30 % being Procambarus zonangulus ( white river crawfish ).

About the inhabitants of the Nomuka islands ( in the Ha ' apai island group of present-day Tonga ), he wrote that their languages, vehicles, weapons, furniture, clothes, tattoos, style of beard, in short all of their being matched perfectly with what he had already seen while studying tribes on Tongatapu.

About 70 percent of ECT patients are women, due to women being at twice the risk of depression.

She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 2000, Australian actor Barry Humphries won the Special Tony Award for a live theatrical event at the 55th Annual Tony Awards for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, Dame Edna being his " Melbourne Housewife " alter-ego who was recently on Broadway in the show All About Me.

About the same time the Criminal Investigation Department ( CID ) in Belfast was significantly expanded, with a detective head constable being appointed to head the CID force in each of the five Belfast police districts.

About 33 % of people are susceptible to motion sickness even in mild circumstances such as being on a boat in calm water, although nearly 66 % of people are susceptible in more severe conditions.

Ironically, in " Much Apu About Nothing ," Nelson picks on foreign exchange student Üter for being German during Springfield's anti-immigration mania.

About 3-7 % of the body weight is sometimes claimed as deadly for horses, but an example in the scientific literature exists of a horse surviving being fed over 20 % of its body weight.

About 110 species are considered " mangroves ", in the sense of being a tree that grows in such a saline swamp, though only a few are from the mangrove plant genus, Rhizophora.

per capita income figure is artificially low due to the above-mentioned youth detention center population About 0. 4 % of families and 1. 8 % of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 1. 0 % of those age 65 or over.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him ...-William Shakespeare – Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene I

About an hour later, a shooting spree, which killed 69 people, was reported at Utøya, an island forty-five minutes away where the ruling Labour Party was holding its annual youth camp.

Lover were drawn to the collaboration with the denim giant due to the fact that " Levis rock ' n ' roll youth culture heritage was a perfect fit with the mood of " their A / W About A Girl collection.

About 750 local youth groups affiliate themselves with the organization, comprising over 8, 500 youth members.

About 750 local youth groups affiliate themselves with the organization, comprising over 8, 500 youth members.

About this city Bacón Duarte Prado ( journalist and musician ) wrote: Villarrica is the city of the eternal youth, born from the waters of the Ycuá Pytá and the breeze that comes from the hills.

About Wulfstan's youth we know nothing.

About 120 innocent youth aged 15 and 16 were taken in custody and transferred to the Soviet Union's secret service ( predecessor of the KGB ), hoping all other citizens would be spared.

About 20 % of the inhabitants of the parish are children and youth ( less than 15 years ), 55 % are active adults, while seniors make-up 25 % of the population.

About Bezprym's first years of life almost nothing is known, in contrast with his half-brother Mieszko II, whose youth was fully described in several contemporary sources.

The ancient Britons being naturally a warlike nation did no doubt for the exercise of their youth in time of peace and to avoid idleness devise games of activity where each man might show his natural prowess and agility ...... About one or two of the clock afternoon begins the play, in this sort, after a cry made both parties draw to into some plain, all first stripped bare saving a light pair of breeches, bare-headed, bare-bodied, bare legs and feet .... The foot company thus meeting, there is a round ball prepared of a reasonable quantity so as a man may hold it in his hand and no more, this ball is of some massy wood as box, yew, crab or holly tree and should be boiled in tallow for m make it slippery and hard to hold.

About his youth very little is known.

About 500, Carétène ( aunt of Saint Clotilde the wife of Clovis ) replaced a temple of Venus ( famous for a bath of youth utilising the areas ' mineral springs ) by a Christian church dedicated to Saint Michael.

About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.

About halfway back Pops groped against a wall and stopped, pulled away two loosely nailed wide boards at one end, and went through.

About halfway through the second bottle, Charlie looked at me across Pops, who was sitting between us and asked `` Now ''??

About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board of tax assessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the last two days at the town hall in Centredale.

About 75 persons appeared at that time.

About 40 per cent of the manufacturing is done at the Dallas plant by more than 200 employes.

* All About Asteroids at Atari Times

About himself, Dawkins continues that " I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden.

About half of Armenia's area of approximately has an elevation of at least, and only 3 % of the country lies below.

About 62 % of officially registered wage earners earn at least the average monthly wage, while only 19. 6 % receive a monthly salary of over 100, 000 drams ( about $ 330 at the time ).

* About ASL – article at deaflibrary. org

About the importance of making employment opportunities inclusive, Shirley Davis, director of global diversity and inclusion at the Society for Human Resource Management, said:

About 450 BC, according to Laertius, Pericles spoke in defense of Anaxagoras at his trial.

About the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the popes, then residing at Avignon in France, began to reserve the collation of a great many benefices, so that all the benefices, especially the greater ones, were to be conferred through the Roman Curia ( Lega, Praelectiones Jur.

Write About Love entered the UK albums chart in its first week of release, peaking at No. 8 as of 19 October 2010.

About the age of 14 Beatrix, like many girls at the time, began to keep a diary.

* About Copyright at the UK Intellectual Property Office

Another development was the increasing use of " gross-out humour " usually aimed at a younger audience, in films like There's Something About Mary, American Pie and its sequels, and Freddy Got Fingered.

About 1, 000 post-graduate students attend programmes at the university and many students are taking Master of Science engineering programmes and the Master of Architecture programme.

About 80 % of the class of 2010 did research through the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships ( SURF ) program at least once during their stay, and many continued during the school year.

About an hour after fragment K entered Jupiter, observers recorded auroral emission near the impact region, as well as at the antipode of the impact site with respect to Jupiter's strong magnetic field.

About 99 % of the Earth's atmosphere is composed of diatomic molecules, specifically oxygen and nitrogen at 21 % and 78 %, respectively.